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Lighting & Compositing Exploration – Personal Project
An exploration of mood and visual storytelling using a single environment, lit across multiple conditions including daytime, afternoon, night, and sci-fi variations. The goal of this study is to analyze contrast, atmosphere, and visual readability under different lighting scenarios.
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Lighting & Compositing Exploration.
Same scene, different time-of-day treatments to study mood, contrast, and readability:
Daytime / Afternoon / Midnight / Sci-Fi.
Planning the scene with a lighting-first approach.
No shaders applied — focusing purely on light placement, exposure, and value separation.
Daylight time-of-day pass with shaders applied.
Focusing on natural light balance, material response, and overall readability.
Afternoon.
Adjusting sun angle, warmer color temperature, and longer shadows to shift the mood.
Midnight.
Exploring low-light balance, controlled highlights, and silhouette readability.
Daylight base lighting with a Sci-Fi variation FX
Wahyu Denis Kurniawan
Lighting & Compositing Artist
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